Editor's Eye: Hamish Bowles

“It’s been an extraordinary year of travel, even by my dizzying standards,” says International Editor at Large Hamish Bowles, whose dispatches had him dashing between imperial Beijing, the terraces of Taormina, and the souks of Tangier. Routinely tucked into his regal-purple T. Anthony trunks are hand-bound Egyptian notebooks, vintage Charvet pocket squares, and colorful Dries Van Noten and Gene Meyer pieces. Meanwhile, chintzes from French fabric house Le Manach, Schiaparelli-inspired cuff links from Jaipur, and Lesage-embroidered shoes by Christian Louboutin—not to mention the 3,000-piece couture collection he’s amassed over the decades trawling the globe—are just a few more trappings of a glamorous and peripatetic life.